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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Neuroscience

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  • The self reliably prioritizes self-related information over non-self-related information in cognition.
  • Factors like self-compatibility may influence how self-relevant information is prioritized.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether affective consistency between the self and associated stimuli impacts self-prioritization.
  • To determine if negative self-associations dampen and positive self-associations boost self-prioritization.

Main Methods:

  • Participants associated themselves with positive or negative concepts.
  • Participants then judged stimulus-label matching for emotional faces and luminance cues.
  • Two experiments were conducted to test the hypothesis.

Main Results:

  • Participants who associated with negative concepts showed reduced self-prioritization compared to those with positive associations.
  • Difficulty in confirming stimulus-label matches was higher for the negative association group.
  • Results indicate affective consistency plays a role in self-prioritization.

Conclusions:

  • Self-prioritization is modulated by affective consistency, not just a default elevation of priority.
  • Negative self-associations can dampen self-prioritization, suggesting a nuanced self-referential processing.
  • Findings have implications for self theories across multiple levels of information processing.